Cuban inmigrants in the United States: what determines their earnings distribution?

In this paper the conditional earnings distribution of Cuban immigrants in the U.S. using OLS and Quantile Regression is analyzed. The data used in the study come from the 2011 American Com munity Survey (ACS) in the U.S. provided by IPUMS (2011). The results show that increments in earn ings associ...

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Autores: Cobas Valdés, Aleida, Fernández Sainz, Ana Isabel, Wilkinson, Stephen
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/25037
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/25037
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:cuban migration
earnings distribution
cuban workers in U.S
socioeconomic characteristics
quantile regression
immigrants workers
Cuba.
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Sumario:In this paper the conditional earnings distribution of Cuban immigrants in the U.S. using OLS and Quantile Regression is analyzed. The data used in the study come from the 2011 American Com munity Survey (ACS) in the U.S. provided by IPUMS (2011). The results show that increments in earn ings associated with different socioeconomic characteristics such as: sex, marital status, ethnicity, proficiency in English and education vary across the earnings distribution.